Pörnbacher, Karl

Partner, head of Hogan Lovells' German Arbitration practice

• National and international arbitration proceedings
• Commercial litigation
• Other ADR proceedings (mediation, adjudication)
• Gas, oil, and electricity
• Projects and construction
• Corporate and M&A
• Insurance and reinsurance
• General commercial relationships

• 1988-1992 legal studies at the universities of Passau, Angers, Toulouse (France, Licence in civil law and Maîtrise in commercial law) and Munich (1. State Examination)
• 2000 – 2003 in Hogan Lovells’ Warsaw office

More than 50 national and international arbitration proceedings as a counsel and more than 30 proceedings as arbitrator(both as chairman/sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator) in particular in ICC, DIS and ad-hoc-proceedings as well as before the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Specific Experience in diputes in Central and Eastern Europe.

• Gas price review arbitrations – background and procedural particularities (German publication), Schieds-VZ, Dec. 2012
• Revision of the CIETAC Arbitration Rules - New perspectives in dispute resolution between German and Chinese companies (German publication), Betriebs-Berater, Aug. 2012
• Liability of Arbitrators – Judicial Immunity vs. Contractual Liability, Czech Arbitration Yearbook 2012
• The reform of the ICC rules of arbitration (German publication), Betriebs-Berater 43/2011

• German
• English
• French
• Polish

• Member of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS)-Advisory Board
• President of the Arbitration Court of the German-Polish Chamber of Commerce
• Member of the board of EUCON (European Institute for Conflict Management)
• Chairman of the ADR working party at the Munich bar
• Member of the Austrian, Swiss and Polish Arbitration Institution.